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Speaking to launch McGill’s interdisciplinary media studies program last Wednesday, Hersh said he had seen video footage of atrocities in Iraq. Jennifer Bartoli / The McGill Daily |
Posted on 11/01/2006 2:48:26 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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Speaking to launch McGill’s interdisciplinary media studies program last Wednesday, Hersh said he had seen video footage of atrocities in Iraq. Jennifer Bartoli / The McGill Daily |
During his hour-and-a-half lecture – part of the launch of an interdisciplinary media and communications studies program called Media@McGill – Hersh described video footage depicting U.S. atrocities in Iraq, which he had viewed, but not yet published a story about.
He described one video in which American soldiers massacre a group of people playing soccer.
“Three U.S. armed vehicles, eight soldiers in each, are driving through a village, passing candy out to kids,” he began. “Suddenly the first vehicle explodes, and there are soldiers screaming. Sixteen soldiers come out of the other vehicles, and they do what they’re told to do, which is look for running people.”
“Never mind that the bomb was detonated by remote control,” Hersh continued. “[The soldiers] open up fire; [the] cameras show it was a soccer game.”
“About ten minutes later, [the soldiers] begin dragging bodies together, and they drop weapons there. It was reported as 20 or 30 insurgents killed that day,” he said.
If Americans knew the full extent of U.S. criminal conduct, they would receive returning Iraqi veterans as they did Vietnam veterans, Hersh said.
“In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation,” he said. “It isn’t happening now, but I will tell you – there has never been an [American] army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq.”
Hersh came out hard against President Bush for his involvement in the Middle East.
“In Washington, you can’t expect any rationality. I don’t know if he’s in Iraq because God told him to, because his father didn’t do it, or because it’s the next step in his 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous program,” he said.
Hersh hinted that the responsibility for the invasion of Iraq lies with eight or nine members of the administration who have a “neo-conservative agenda” and dictate the U.S.’s post-September 11 foreign policy.
“You have a collapsed Congress, you have a collapsed press. The military is going to do what the President wants,” Hersh said. “How fragile is democracy in America, if a president can come in with an agenda controlled by a few cultists?”
Throughout his talk Hersh remained pessimistic, predicting that the U.S. will initiate an attack against Iran, and that the situation in Iraq will deteriorate further.
“There’s no reason to see a change in policy about Iraq. [Bush] thinks that, in twenty years, he’s going to be recognized for the leader he was – the analogy he uses is Churchill,” Hersh said. “If you read the public statements of the leadership, they’re so confident and so calm…. It’s pretty scary.”
Oh yeah...forgot about that.
You give it a try Seymour. If you do, I will personally hunt you down and beat the stuffings out of you.
Nothing new here. Calm and confident American leadership, and calm confidence of the people in America's aims and purposes, have always been "scary" to leftist-extremists like Hersh. And to rightist-extremists for that matter. They revile liberal civilization (of which America is presently the paradigmatic representative) and cry out in hatred and fear whenever it defends itself, and cry even louder when it advances on the domains of thugocracy and tyranny.
Wow really, our military in Iraq is even worse then the butchers we had in in Vietnam? Wow that's pretty bad. I guess I won't vote in November. Oh darn! I already did. And I voted Republican because Democrats are a bunch of gutless p*****s and woudln't fight if Osama Bin Laden himself was holding a knife at their little girls necks. This guy is a spineless coward and wouldn't fight for anyones freedom, but feels free to attack the military to fights for his. What a crock. Our miltiary is the best and LEAST brutal in the world, and this "author" isn't qualified to say word one about them. He's also not fit to lick the bottoms of their boots.
It would be decidedly hasty to assume it even exists. Sy makes stuff up out of whole cloth (or willful delusion) all the time. His admitted occasional "hits" float in a vast sea of green, steaming horse shit.
See post #77!
Thanks...more fodder for broken-glass Republicans:
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Michael is on the left... no longer with us BECAUSE our brave and honorable troops DO NOT mow down civilians.
I met Hersch a couple times when our careers coincided. I was required to help him then, but helped him much less than I perhaps could have. I also I checked him off in my mind as a person I would probably not resuscitate were I to have that opportunity
See the links at post #109....a real piece of garbage ...made his reputation from the Vietnam War.
It is so heartrending to lose such men in the prime of their life.
Find this guy's email and Freep him until he either repents or moves from America!! Sy is an old time lefty from even before the Nam morass. He hates America as so many lefties do. After you blast him, ignore him. He is intellectually bankrupt.
The whole country needs to know about these nutty leftists. They always open up when out of the contry and our MSM never reports their remarks. Then they are praised a prise winning journalists who write for so called prestigious crap as The NewYorker, NYT newspaper and magazine, Vanity Affair, Rolling Stone. They are great icons of the USA. They make me ill and also scare me to death.
The left are traitorous bastards. This guy is exhibit A.
It does totally break your heart :-(
But it is made excrutiating by vicious, reeking pond scum like Seymour, Sheehan, Murtha, etc, who then turn around and call our American heroes murderers and terrorists.
When it comes to armies.. I think violent and murderous are desired attributes. Game On!
These frigen commie usefull idiot bastards are doing the same thing they did with NAM. May their souls rot in hell.
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